Baked Beans - Volume 3

Baked Beans (Life Aboard USS Boston CA-69) is a three volume follow-up to A Bird's Eye View - the story of the heavy cruiser USS Boston and her exploits during WWll in the many battles against the Empire of Japan.Volume III relates the events from April 1, 1945 through the end of January 1946 when the ship returned to San Francisco, CA. During this period, the Boston participated in the final engagements against Japan, and the lead-up to the Surrender. The Surrender (Sept. 2, 1945) did...
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Baked Beans (Life Aboard USS Boston CA-69) is a three volume follow-up to A Bird's Eye View - the story of the heavy cruiser USS Boston and her exploits during WWll in the many battles against the Empire of Japan.Volume III relates the events from April 1, 1945 through the end of January 1946 when the ship returned to San Francisco, CA. During this period, the Boston participated in the final engagements against Japan, and the lead-up to the Surrender. The Surrender (Sept. 2, 1945) did not represent the end of the story for the ship and her crew. The men were assigned post-War demilitarization (Occupation Duty) duties, spending an extra six months off the shores of Japan.Readers of this book will read, for the first time ever in print, Marine Major Norman C. Bayley's exploits on the ground hours after the Atomic Bombs went off over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Mr. Bayley was the commander of the ship's Marine Detachment. He was asked to gather intelligence on the ground after the bombs went off - the first American in. In Norm's own words, he tells of his "forage" into enemy territory - bristling with soldiers and thousands of wounded civilians. Readers will also see diary entries, first hand accounts from men who were there, official documents and declassified photos from the National Archives.